@cejpreston.bsky.social
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My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
Frontiers | The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant tingling sensation felt across the scalp and neck, widely reported to reduce anxiety and improve sl...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My first first-author paper is out now in Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience!🎉 A model to explain ASMR's neural mechanism & clinical potential via predictive coding of CT-touch, linking LC-vagus dynamics & the PPS network... 1/5
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
w/ the brilliant @cejpreston.bsky.social & @cademccall.bsky.social
Exciting BRNet webinar tomorrow! Sign up and see the fabulous @annacrossland.bsky.social from @york.ac.uk @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
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Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
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October 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Exciting BRNet webinar tomorrow! Sign up and see the fabulous @annacrossland.bsky.social from @york.ac.uk @bodyrepnetwork.bsky.social
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New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.
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Erin's talk was one of the ones I was most excited about and it didn't disappoint!
Refreshing to hear a move away from negative lenses and how individuals were empowered by their disabilities. Really looking forward to more on appearance-functionality and reading this theme in more detail!
Refreshing to hear a move away from negative lenses and how individuals were empowered by their disabilities. Really looking forward to more on appearance-functionality and reading this theme in more detail!
Joshua Francis shares a new scale of social comparison in development for children.
Erin Vinoski Thomas analyses the content of #DisabledAndCute posts on social media.
Lastly, Fidan Turk reports meta-analytic that social comparison is robustly associated with eating disorder symptoms.
Erin Vinoski Thomas analyses the content of #DisabledAndCute posts on social media.
Lastly, Fidan Turk reports meta-analytic that social comparison is robustly associated with eating disorder symptoms.
September 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Erin's talk was one of the ones I was most excited about and it didn't disappoint!
Refreshing to hear a move away from negative lenses and how individuals were empowered by their disabilities. Really looking forward to more on appearance-functionality and reading this theme in more detail!
Refreshing to hear a move away from negative lenses and how individuals were empowered by their disabilities. Really looking forward to more on appearance-functionality and reading this theme in more detail!
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Starting Day 3 now with a talk from Emilie Mussbach on parent perspectives on body image and eating disorder services in South Asian communities in London and Katrina Holmes a Court on a systematic review of cognitive aspects of body dysmorphic disorder.
#PIBI2025
#EatingDisorders
#BodyImage
#PIBI2025
#EatingDisorders
#BodyImage
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Starting Day 3 now with a talk from Emilie Mussbach on parent perspectives on body image and eating disorder services in South Asian communities in London and Katrina Holmes a Court on a systematic review of cognitive aspects of body dysmorphic disorder.
#PIBI2025
#EatingDisorders
#BodyImage
#PIBI2025
#EatingDisorders
#BodyImage
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Now starting our session on eating disorders @ #PiBI2025
Verity Pratt shows meta-analytic evidence that perfectionism explains c. 11% of variance in orthorexia in sport samples.
Tugba Turkan shows that greater frequency of past dieting attempts predicted higher ED symptom scores.
Verity Pratt shows meta-analytic evidence that perfectionism explains c. 11% of variance in orthorexia in sport samples.
Tugba Turkan shows that greater frequency of past dieting attempts predicted higher ED symptom scores.
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Now starting our session on eating disorders @ #PiBI2025
Verity Pratt shows meta-analytic evidence that perfectionism explains c. 11% of variance in orthorexia in sport samples.
Tugba Turkan shows that greater frequency of past dieting attempts predicted higher ED symptom scores.
Verity Pratt shows meta-analytic evidence that perfectionism explains c. 11% of variance in orthorexia in sport samples.
Tugba Turkan shows that greater frequency of past dieting attempts predicted higher ED symptom scores.
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In our 'Interventions' parallel session, Madison Vani starts us off with reviews of resources for parents to support their child's body image. Not so many available, often not age specific, not a lot of theory-based resources... Much work to be done!
#BodyImage
#DevelopmentalPsychology
#BodyImage
#DevelopmentalPsychology
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In our 'Interventions' parallel session, Madison Vani starts us off with reviews of resources for parents to support their child's body image. Not so many available, often not age specific, not a lot of theory-based resources... Much work to be done!
#BodyImage
#DevelopmentalPsychology
#BodyImage
#DevelopmentalPsychology
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Final session of Day 2 at #PIBI2025
First Debora Blaso talks about how corrective surgery recipients feel when they first look at their body or face. Lots of strong emotions, especially when support given was low.
First Debora Blaso talks about how corrective surgery recipients feel when they first look at their body or face. Lots of strong emotions, especially when support given was low.
September 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final session of Day 2 at #PIBI2025
First Debora Blaso talks about how corrective surgery recipients feel when they first look at their body or face. Lots of strong emotions, especially when support given was low.
First Debora Blaso talks about how corrective surgery recipients feel when they first look at their body or face. Lots of strong emotions, especially when support given was low.
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Now for our second plenary! The amazing Anne Becker talks to us about problematising the 'media and culture' explanation of globalising eating disorders.
#Anthropology
#PIBI2025
#PublicHealth
#Cross-cultural
#Psychology
#Anthropology
#PIBI2025
#PublicHealth
#Cross-cultural
#Psychology
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Now for our second plenary! The amazing Anne Becker talks to us about problematising the 'media and culture' explanation of globalising eating disorders.
#Anthropology
#PIBI2025
#PublicHealth
#Cross-cultural
#Psychology
#Anthropology
#PIBI2025
#PublicHealth
#Cross-cultural
#Psychology
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PiBI Day 2 kicks off with an early morning session (for us!) with the Australians!
Gemma Sharp gave an overview of the first 3/12 months of the CoRe-ED network;
Lauren Conboy talked about the co-development of a digital body image programme;
Cristian Di Gesto talked about post-partum body image;
Gemma Sharp gave an overview of the first 3/12 months of the CoRe-ED network;
Lauren Conboy talked about the co-development of a digital body image programme;
Cristian Di Gesto talked about post-partum body image;
September 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
PiBI Day 2 kicks off with an early morning session (for us!) with the Australians!
Gemma Sharp gave an overview of the first 3/12 months of the CoRe-ED network;
Lauren Conboy talked about the co-development of a digital body image programme;
Cristian Di Gesto talked about post-partum body image;
Gemma Sharp gave an overview of the first 3/12 months of the CoRe-ED network;
Lauren Conboy talked about the co-development of a digital body image programme;
Cristian Di Gesto talked about post-partum body image;
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No rest for the PhD student - this week is Perspectives in Body Image online conference! #PiBI2025 @persbodyimage.bsky.social
First day was full on, including hearing the journey positive body image has been on with Tracy Tylka (very heart-warming)
@persbodyimage.bsky.social
First day was full on, including hearing the journey positive body image has been on with Tracy Tylka (very heart-warming)
@persbodyimage.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
No rest for the PhD student - this week is Perspectives in Body Image online conference! #PiBI2025 @persbodyimage.bsky.social
First day was full on, including hearing the journey positive body image has been on with Tracy Tylka (very heart-warming)
@persbodyimage.bsky.social
First day was full on, including hearing the journey positive body image has been on with Tracy Tylka (very heart-warming)
@persbodyimage.bsky.social
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Paolo Mancin's talk just now in #PiBI2025 on the benefits of nature on body positivity and appreciation of the self has reminded me I need to organise my monthly outdoor time for September 🌳
I've found that these walks or visiting fancy houses and their grounds has done WONDERS for my mental health
I've found that these walks or visiting fancy houses and their grounds has done WONDERS for my mental health
September 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Paolo Mancin's talk just now in #PiBI2025 on the benefits of nature on body positivity and appreciation of the self has reminded me I need to organise my monthly outdoor time for September 🌳
I've found that these walks or visiting fancy houses and their grounds has done WONDERS for my mental health
I've found that these walks or visiting fancy houses and their grounds has done WONDERS for my mental health
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Now for the second speed talk session!
Rhea Milson starts with data showing that body shame is a key factor in the negative consequences of online harassment for women's eating disorder risk;
Then Phoebe Gray presents amazing slides on body-talk and trust between personal trainers and clients!
Rhea Milson starts with data showing that body shame is a key factor in the negative consequences of online harassment for women's eating disorder risk;
Then Phoebe Gray presents amazing slides on body-talk and trust between personal trainers and clients!
September 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Now for the second speed talk session!
Rhea Milson starts with data showing that body shame is a key factor in the negative consequences of online harassment for women's eating disorder risk;
Then Phoebe Gray presents amazing slides on body-talk and trust between personal trainers and clients!
Rhea Milson starts with data showing that body shame is a key factor in the negative consequences of online harassment for women's eating disorder risk;
Then Phoebe Gray presents amazing slides on body-talk and trust between personal trainers and clients!
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🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
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September 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨Do you want to join our online seminars?
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Next month we have this amazing seminar with Anna and Noa!
Register to join, it’s free 🤓
#somatosensation
#interoception
#sensory
#body
#science
#neuroscience
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PIBI has started! We have 90 people in our opening plenary from the amazing Tracy Tylka - talking about positive body image - what it is, what it isn't and where we go from here!
Remember: 'body positivity' is NOT the same as 'positive body image'!
#PIBI2025
Remember: 'body positivity' is NOT the same as 'positive body image'!
#PIBI2025
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
PIBI has started! We have 90 people in our opening plenary from the amazing Tracy Tylka - talking about positive body image - what it is, what it isn't and where we go from here!
Remember: 'body positivity' is NOT the same as 'positive body image'!
#PIBI2025
Remember: 'body positivity' is NOT the same as 'positive body image'!
#PIBI2025
Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!
New qualitative paper! A foray into gastric interception. @lucysta02475610.bsky.social ran a LOT of focus groups, across groups with eating disorders, gastric disorders and neither, to understand how people experience the sensations from their GI system. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"I feel full with shame": A qualitative perspective on gastric interoceptive sensibility
“Am I hungry? Did I overeat at lunch?” Gastric interoception - the sensing, interpretation, and regulation of signals from the gastrointestinal system…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Read our new paper on qualitative experiences of gastric interoception!
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My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
September 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My first #BACN conference was brilliant - from sensory representations to rhythmic stimulation... and from touch to space-time! Happy to have met some wonderful minds and already looking forward to Brighton next year! 🧠
We have a new preprint out on mechanisms underlying ASMR!
Behold, the first preprint from my PhD! A novel theoretical model proposing that ASMR's neural mechanism and therapeutic potential involves predictive coding of CT-touch in peripersonal space. 🧠
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a pleasant tingling sensation felt across the scalp and neck, widely reported to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis (P...
doi.org
September 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We have a new preprint out on mechanisms underlying ASMR!
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PiBI is getting closer!
Don’t forget to sign up to one of our two networking events: 👇🏼
* Wednesday 17th Sept, 7pm BST - PiBI Virtual Speed Mentoring session forms.office.com/e/hUvdy27RYq
* Thursday 18th Sept, 2am BST/12pm ACT - CoRE-ED Virtual Networking event forms.office.com/e/WU6jP9JJSr
Don’t forget to sign up to one of our two networking events: 👇🏼
* Wednesday 17th Sept, 7pm BST - PiBI Virtual Speed Mentoring session forms.office.com/e/hUvdy27RYq
* Thursday 18th Sept, 2am BST/12pm ACT - CoRE-ED Virtual Networking event forms.office.com/e/WU6jP9JJSr
September 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
PiBI is getting closer!
Don’t forget to sign up to one of our two networking events: 👇🏼
* Wednesday 17th Sept, 7pm BST - PiBI Virtual Speed Mentoring session forms.office.com/e/hUvdy27RYq
* Thursday 18th Sept, 2am BST/12pm ACT - CoRE-ED Virtual Networking event forms.office.com/e/WU6jP9JJSr
Don’t forget to sign up to one of our two networking events: 👇🏼
* Wednesday 17th Sept, 7pm BST - PiBI Virtual Speed Mentoring session forms.office.com/e/hUvdy27RYq
* Thursday 18th Sept, 2am BST/12pm ACT - CoRE-ED Virtual Networking event forms.office.com/e/WU6jP9JJSr
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💖 Anne is a medical anthropologist and psychiatrist. Her work on the sociocultural mediation of eating disorders has been truly ground breaking and across her career she has reshaped understandings of global mental health. We are honoured to have her at our conference!
Click to register!
Click to register!
Perspectives in Body Image: An international online conference - ACE lab
Dates: 16th-18th Sept 2025 PiBI is a conference that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines and regions working on body image (broadly defined) and sociocultural appearance pressures. Th...
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August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
💖 Anne is a medical anthropologist and psychiatrist. Her work on the sociocultural mediation of eating disorders has been truly ground breaking and across her career she has reshaped understandings of global mental health. We are honoured to have her at our conference!
Click to register!
Click to register!
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🎉 MEET THE KEYNOTES - PART 2 🎉
💡 Next in our spotlight is the brilliant Anne Becker, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...
💡 Next in our spotlight is the brilliant Anne Becker, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...
August 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🎉 MEET THE KEYNOTES - PART 2 🎉
💡 Next in our spotlight is the brilliant Anne Becker, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...
💡 Next in our spotlight is the brilliant Anne Becker, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staf...
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Seeking people who self-identify as having an eating disorder, gastric disorder, or neither disorder to complete an online survey about how they experience their body from the inside. Links here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏
Lucy Stafford - Take part in my research
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November 13, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Seeking people who self-identify as having an eating disorder, gastric disorder, or neither disorder to complete an online survey about how they experience their body from the inside. Links here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l... 🙏
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The final paper from my PhD has been published!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!
August 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The final paper from my PhD has been published!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interested in illusory resizing and neural responses? Take a look at the abstract below!
Another new paper. This one was a real labour of love, particularly by @kirrraliseh.bsky.social Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@bakerdh.bsky.social @mcfrenzie.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@bakerdh.bsky.social @mcfrenzie.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Another new paper. This one was a real labour of love, particularly by @kirrraliseh.bsky.social Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@bakerdh.bsky.social @mcfrenzie.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
@bakerdh.bsky.social @mcfrenzie.bsky.social @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
@painreliefteam.bsky.social
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Today is the last day of our early bird rates!
We have talks on body perception, body image intervention, critical perspectives on beauty, LGBTQ+ experience of appearance pressures, male body image, stigma, indigenous body ideals...
Come join us!
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
We have talks on body perception, body image intervention, critical perspectives on beauty, LGBTQ+ experience of appearance pressures, male body image, stigma, indigenous body ideals...
Come join us!
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
July 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Today is the last day of our early bird rates!
We have talks on body perception, body image intervention, critical perspectives on beauty, LGBTQ+ experience of appearance pressures, male body image, stigma, indigenous body ideals...
Come join us!
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...
We have talks on body perception, body image intervention, critical perspectives on beauty, LGBTQ+ experience of appearance pressures, male body image, stigma, indigenous body ideals...
Come join us!
lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...